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Originally Posted by NullNix
So... you think Amazon should screw over everyone who wants to read periodicals, and everyone who has existing stocks of mobi books which are not available in other formats? As far as I can tell from your previous responses, you think exactly that, but you condemn people who use older Kindles -- which still work and can still buy stuff, even newly-published stuff -- for using "EOL" hardware, even though Amazon's reasoning for stopping publishing firmware for older devices -- the maintenance burden -- is *exactly the same* as your stated reasoning for dropping entire file formats in which a huge stock of existing works are published. The difference is, if an older Kindle no longer gets firmware updated, it's still useful and you can still read everything you could read before and buy new stuff too. If a new Kindle firmware release loses support for an entire file format, huge chunks of stuff you already have on there suddenly become useless, and you can't read them any more. This would wreck Kindles' reputation, and rightly so.
(I do have to wonder what you think Kindles are for, if it's not reading.)
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If the eBooks were purchased from Amazon, they could be redownloaed in KF8. The problem is you have to get Kindles out of the stone age and into the present. Mobi is the stone age. If Amazon could make a firmware that allowed KF8 & Mobi for the older devices, fine. But if not, KF8 should be the format of choice. If I had an older Kindle such as a DX or K2, I would want KF8 instead of Mobi if I had the choice. Periodicals need to be rewritten do they are in KF8.